4.8 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup you beautiful bastards. Hope you've been a fantastic Monday. Welcome back to the Philip |
0:04.2 | DeFranco Show and let's just jump into it. The first thing we're going to talk about today |
0:07.7 | is actually awesome news and it feels like we don't get enough of a chance to actually talk |
0:11.9 | about the good that's happening. And at the center of this story you have the massively successful |
0:16.4 | YouTubers that are Mr. Beast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, and Mark Rober, and honestly now, just so many. |
0:21.8 | And Mr. Beast, for those that are unfamiliar, |
0:23.3 | you know, he's known on YouTube for a number of reasons. |
0:25.6 | Lately it's kind of charitable stuns, |
0:27.3 | crazy challenges involving huge sums of money. |
0:29.6 | And around Mr. Beast, earlier this year, |
0:31.2 | a subscriber came up with an idea for Mr. Beast, |
0:33.0 | you plant 20 million trees. |
0:34.7 | A request that just went viral, and so much so, in fact, that in the latest |
0:38.1 | video announcing a new project. Mr. B said that fans had spammed him with this request so often |
0:42.1 | that he had to take on the challenge. And that challenge is to genuinely get 20 million trees |
0:46.4 | planted. And he kicked off the campaign in Oregon by planting hundreds of trees with friends |
0:50.1 | and fans in a large field. You had YouTuber Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer, also joining |
0:54.3 | in by using drones to plant trees. But of course, you know, 20 million trees. That is a massive goal. |
0:59.1 | That's bigger than one or two YouTubers, one or two videos. So that's why, one, Mr. Bees collaborated |
1:04.5 | with the Arbor Day Foundation, one of the largest non-profit conservation organizations dedicated |
1:08.5 | to planting trees. And they say that for every dollar raise, |
1:11.0 | one tree will be planted in an area of high need |
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